FiF UK National Secretary
Fr Geoffrey Kirk's
Letter to Bishop Bennison
3 March 2002
Dear Bishop Bennison,
I write as the National Secretary of Forward in Faith/UK to express our surprise and indignation at the inhibition issued by you against Fr David Moyer.
Fr Moyer is well known to us in Great Britain as a courageous but gentle warrior for Christ - one, moreover, who has struggled, for himself and others, to sustain (within dioceses like your own, which have embraced a narrow, intolerant and wilful sectarianism) a place for Anglicans who share the majority view of the Communion and its Historic Faith. He is seeking in the United States no more by way of the provision of Alternative Oversight than we in the Church of England already enjoy.
Your action (as, in your own heart and before God, you must know) does the causes you espouse no credit. It is, moreover a schismatic act, in so far as it necessarily relates to all those bishops, dioceses, parishes, priests and people throughout the Anglican world who stand with David Moyer and against the agenda which, by means both illegitimate and ungodly, you are pursuing.
If it is not too late, we beg you seriously to take to heart the undoubted truth that doctrinal and moral innovations in the life of the Church which cannot be advanced except by expelling from it those who dissent, are not and cannot be the work of God’s Holy Spirit.
With assurance of our prayers for you and the diocese of Pennsylvania,
Geoffrey Kirk
National Secretary FiF/UK
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